An attempt to ban the Workers Party/PT, the most successful political party of Brazil’s modern era, is the latest in a sequence of attacks on a democracy under siege. By Nathalia Urban On February 10th, Brazil’s Worker’s Party (PT) celebrated its 40th anniversary. The party brought visibility to the struggle of the Brazilian working class, […]
By Nathália Urban On November 1st, Paulo Paulino Guajajara was violently murdered by loggers. Paulino, was a member of the Guardians of the Forest group. The group patrols and protects the Araribóia indigenous land in Maranhão. This was not the first time the group has suffered from loggers’ retaliation for their territorial protection work. Paulino […]